Recent years have seen a surge in research comparing bilinguals to monolinguals, yet
synthesizing this literature is complicated by the diversity of language and social …

We report a systematic meta-analytic review of studies comparing reading comprehension
and its underlying components (language comprehension, decoding, and phonological …

Young English-speaking monolingual and bilingual adults were examined for English
proficiency, language use history, and performance on a flanker task. The bilinguals, who …

Educational policies that impact second language (L2) learners—a rapidly-growing group—
are often enacted without consulting relevant research. This review synthesized research …

In a neuroimaging study focusing on young bilinguals, we explored the brains of bilingual
and monolingual babies across two age groups (younger 4–6months, older 10–12months) …

The primary goal of the emerging field of educational neuroscience and the broader
movement called Mind, Brain, and Education is to join biology with cognitive science …

Due to their experience of managing two languages, it has been suggested that bilinguals
could receive more practice in the domain of working memory (WM) leading to a WM …

Children from low-socioeconomic backgrounds tend to fall progressively further behind their
higher-income peers over the course of their academic careers. Music training has been …

There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the
characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born today master any …

This review of the extant research literature focuses on research about content-based
language instruction (CBI) programmes in K-12 foreign/second language education in the …